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Metrics' Perth magic trick

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By Andrew McKean Verified
| Rampart Talks
Metrics Credit Partners CEO Andrew Lockhart used an op-ed in The Australian on May 3 to declare that investors should not retreat from private credit, an asset class whose meteoric rise in popularity is equalled only by its regulatory scrutiny. Lockhart's prescription was that investors needed simply to ask harder questions of private credit managers in order to distinguish the honourable thieves from the genuine cowboys.
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Judo Bank loses its grip

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By Andrew McKean Verified
| Rampart Talks
It took three customers – a window manufacturer, a financial planning firm, and a builder – to bring Judo Bank to its knees. These customers, guilty of nothing more elaborate than running out of money, wiped the better part of $800 million from the bank's market cap – a 40.8 per cent share price capitulation – on June 25. Who these customers are we are not allowed to know. Judo Bank exercised its discretion there.
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Felix Lee’s banking taxidermy

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By Andrew McKean Verified
| Rampart Talks
in1bank, a defunct neobank targeting Chinese-speaking Australians, is the latest in a long line of small banks to meet an inauspicious end. According to the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, of the seventeen banking licenses it has granted since 2018, six had voluntarily handed back their authorisations by July 2025. It was on January 22, 2026, in1bank's directors waved the white flag, announcing they would give up its license.
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